Dispersed-village dwellers know only car-routed street access, not public space itself.

Evidence

What is peculiar about the inhabitants of dispersed villages is the exclusivity of this sort of knowledge. When asked about public space generally, they reply only in terms of city streets which are traversed by automobile and which provide access to the various little private and semiprivate spaces that make up their world. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 810

Categorization

• CANDY: The Berkeley car dweller who denigrates San Francisco while never leaving the car is a perfect dinner-party anecdote.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s urban-anonymity thread: the dispersed villager minimizes stranger contact by shrinking the observable world to route knowledge — the opposite pole of the flâneur’s receptivity to strangers.